Commonwealth v. Ferreira’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Jones · Commonwealth v. Platt · Commonwealth v. Constantino · Commonwealth v. Duffy · Commonwealth v. Daley
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“upon any way or in any place to which the public has a right of access, or any place to which members of the public have access as invitees or licensees, ... negligently so that the lives or safety of the public might be endangered ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[U]nder the statute, it is not the duration of negligent operation or the proximity of the public but 'the operation of the vehicle itself that is the crime.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he statute only requires proof that the defendant's conduct might have endangered the safety of the public, not that it in fact did.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.